JottingsFall will have turned the leaves

on Picnic Point to gold, red, and brown and finally swept them away by the time you read this issue of Jottings. Before the next issue comes your way, Lake Mendota will have frozen and, we hope, thawed again. One is keenly aware of the seasons’ passage here on the fourth floor of Helen C. White. I am more than normally aware of passing seasons this year. After 18 years at SLIS, 11 of those as the School’s director, I have decided to retire in August 2009. My feelings are a bit mixed, but it’s the right season both for me and for the School. The fine faculty we have assem-bled here will provide excellent leader-ship as the School moves forward. The next director is likely to be appointed from within, with a renewable term of three to five years. This is the pat-tern used across the College of Letters & Science for professional schools; it appears to have served them well. For a time, however, it is likely that the School will once again be less than optimum size, but that’s nothing new in Wisconsin’s constrained budget environment. We will go forward. Our advisory council that met last April provided some insights into the changing information services envi-ronment, and we look to you as well

to keep the faculty in touch with the profession and to help us plot future directions. Transitions are always times for taking stock, so please read the council summary, ask for the full set of notes if you wish, and weigh in as we consider our direction. In the spring issue of Jottings, I’ll ask your indulgence as I reflect on the past 18 years, but in this issue I have two other agenda items: First, it would do me great honor if you would join me as I celebrate my retirement. Although my retirement will not take effect until August, my retirement festivities are scheduled for April 17, 2009, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at SLIS. Jenny Greiber (jgreiber@wisc.edu) will be able to give you details. Second, I’m sure you are aware that development has been a priority of my years as director. We continue to need additional funding for stu-dent support. Numbers of excellent students decide to go elsewhere or to take another path because the cost of a SLIS education is so great. I want to use my retirement fete as an oppor-tunity to endow another scholarship. The Directors’ Scholarship Fund will honor the ten—yes, only ten— directors the School has known and will target a student of exceptional promise who is committed to

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TRADITION AND VISION

and D I G R E S S I O N S

From the Director’s Chair

CONTENTS

2 Advice from Our Council3 SLIS News

6 Alumni Association News 8 Faculty and Staff News

10 Student Work 11 Class Notes

April 17, 2009 — 4:30-6:30 p.m. SLIS Commons. Retirement Party for Louise Robbins.

May 14, 2009 — Beta Beta Epsilon Chapter of Beta Phi Mu annual meeting and initiation of new members.

Mid-June, 2009 — Librarians’ Study Tour of Scotland. Watch Web site for exact dates.

July 12, 2009 — SLIS Reunion at ALA in Chicago; more to come in Spring issue.

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Advice from Our Council

community engagement. Endowing a fund requires a minimum of $10,000, which will yield less than $500 annu-ally. I’d like us to do better than that, and I will kick off the fund with $1,000, and ask you to contribute as you are able. Give the new director a little more money with which to attract excellent students while making possible a University of Wisconsin-Madison SLIS education for one more future professional. To make your gift, either write a check to the University of Wisconsin Foundation, mark it with SLIS

Directors’ Fund and mail it to UW Foundation, U.S. Bank Lockbox, P.O. Box 78807, Milwaukee, WI 53278-0807 OR log in to www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu and make your gift online, being sure to indicate where you want your gift to go. There is a new link to the Foundation’s giving site from our Web site as well. Our Development Director at the UW Foundation will be happy to answer any questions you might have. You can contact her at Jennifer.Karlson@uwfoundation.wisc.edu or call her at (608) 262-7225.

On April 4, 2008, a group of alumni and friends met at SLIS to provide advice as to the direction of the School. As promised, here are high-lights from the day-long discussion. Council members who participated are listed at the end of this article. Following a brief update on the School, Louise Robbins asked the par-ticipants how positions were chang-ing in their libraries, and what they were seeking in new hires; in what directions the School might grow; and what characteristics the next leader/director should have. A sum-mary of high points follows.

• Almost without exception, commu-nication and instruction emerged as major emphases in library posi-tions. A new librarian should have ability to put a presentation togeth-er, speak smoothly, have teaching skills. They need to be able to devel-op programs of instruction, working across specialties. But public and

school libraries and archives all value instructional skills a great deal.

• New librarians must be able to work across functions, to blend a lot of different skills in a complex, chang-ing environment, to think critically. Professional jobs are becoming more difficult. Among skills most needed across the board are flex-ibility, adaptability, and the ability to work collaboratively in a team setting.

• New librarians must be have man-agement and supervisory skills right away; to be able to manage a project, “to manage people and to work with them during difficult bud-getary times.” The new librarian will need to be able to understand the political dynamics of an organization, to be proactive and practical. People skills are essential as well as the ability to work with diverse popu-lations and be politically savvy.

Director, continued from page 1New StaffSLIS is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrea Poehling as the new Student Services Coordinator. Andrea has come to SLIS from

the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. From 1997 to 2004 she was the Associate Director of International Programs in the School of Business. Andrea

also served in the Peace Corps in Guatemala in 2004-05. Andrea holds a master’s degree from UW-Madison in Counseling, with an emphasis in higher education administration. Her responsibilities at SLIS include admissions, advising, practicum and career placement, and alumni relations. She is a great addi-tion to our staff, learning the library-land ropes with visits around campus and the community and to conferences.

Anne M. Murphy-Lom took over in August for former department administrator Lynn Souther. She comes to SLIS from Limnology and has assumed campus leader-ship roles with the Letters & Science Department Administrators Network and with the Council for Non-Represented Classified Staff. We are delighted to have her.

Andrea Poehling, Student Services Coordinator

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SLIS Council MembersTerm ends 2009Alberto HerreraBarbara DimickKaren LetarteJuba Watts-CainNjambe KamocheChristine Windheuser

Term ends 2010Jennifer YoungerMark WendtRhea LawsonZelantha PhillipJoshua RangerAllison Smith

Term ends 2011Sarah PritchardNancy McClementsConnie BakkerPenelope KleinEthel HimmelKathryn Bugher

• New graduates must not be afraid of technology and must be able to talk to the hard core tech folks.

• In the archives/museum area people are needed with the ability to digitize materials and handle copyright issues as well as unique cataloging challenges. Even at the university, librarians may have unusual cataloging challenges, such as cataloging rocks for the geology department. “We need more cross-talkers” who can apply basic cata-loging and archival principles across areas. Managing electronic records and born digital documents is a growing need. But in most cases, cataloging is out-sourced or done by paraprofessionals. But new librar-ians should understand what the organizational choices are, how to work across different platforms, and how to apply our principles.

• In special libraries what’s important is competitive advantage and being able to find one citation that can win a court case or save time and money. Innovation is an end in itself.

• In public libraries, community focused planning, programming, and outcomes based assessment is essential—and there is a new emphasis on teens. Librarians need to be able to think and talk in terms of the impact that their services will have on the communities they serve.

• We were encouraged to know who would take any new program we would offer—do a market study, to look at areas where we already have collaborations, and to encour-age students to take classes outside the School. SLIS was encouraged to market its continuing education more aggressively and to let people know

what we can do to tailor CE to their needs. The council was aware of the costs associated with distance courses.

• Distance continuing education emerged as a possibility, with inter-est in post-master’s certificates offered by distance education tech-nologies. The most important areas seemed to be management and legal issues for libraries, but also oppor-tunities for librarians coming in with one skill to develop another to work across boundaries.

• There is interest in museum studies, especially in the digital environment. “There is a lot of overlap between what we do in libraries, and what we do in museums, and I thought the courses and training were great preparatory work for my chosen profession (registration/museum collection management).” Archivists have to write exhibit texts and deal with three-dimensional objects.

• Future SLIS leadership should be a tech savvy person who can integrate of current strengths and new direc-tions for the School, “someone who will fully embrace a vision for the whole School and take it to the next level.” Concerns about preserving the archives and School library pro-grams emerged, as well as a concern about distance from practice. We need someone who is comfortable with development

As the meeting drew to a close, the council members agreed to being assigned staggered terms determined by drawing straws. All will meet again April 17, 2009, with that being the conclusion of some terms.

Bobb to Retire in JanuaryLong-time Student Records Manager Diana Bobb will retire January 4, 2009. Bobb started in 1987 as a receptionist/faculty secretary and ends her career as a Student Status Examiner. An inveterate reader, Bobb has felt right at home at SLIS for more than 20 years. Students remember Bobb as the person to whom they had to give their course approval forms and the one who scolded them when they failed to cover their food in the microwave. She was, however, also the one who made sure that students gradu-ated on time by monitoring their progress toward degree and issuing friendly reminders when things needed to get done. She will be hard to replace.

Doctoral Fellowships in Archival Studies are currently available through a new eight-campus initia-tive (including UW-Madison) for individuals interested in pursuing careers as educators and scholars and who would enter a doctoral program in fall 2009. Supported by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Archival Education and Research Fellowships are aimed at strengthening doctoral-level education in Archival Studies, building the cohort of archival educa-tors and increasing its diversity, and promoting a broad base of rigorous archival scholarship. The fellowships will provide tuition and annual stipends of $20,000 for the first two years of study, to be followed by two years of comparable

support from their School. They are open to all citizens or permanent resi-dents of the U.S. who exhibit inter-est in the field of Archival Studies, broadly defined, and evidence of ability to excel as scholars and educa-tors in the field. Applications are par-ticularly encouraged from individuals who are of American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander heritage. Applications will be ranked based on evidence of the applicant’s com-mitment to Archival Studies edu-cation, potential to make a strong scholarly contribution to the field, and commitment to diversity within Archival Studies education and schol-arship. A minimum of two doctoral fellowships will be awarded for

students who will be entering doctoral programs at participating programs in fall 2009. In addition to the fellowships, a series of weeklong Archival Education and Research Institutes (AERI), planned for 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012, will bring together doctoral students and faculty from across the United States and worldwide. Limited scholarship funding will also be avail-able for U.S. doctoral students wish-ing to attend the institutes. Further information about the fellowship and AERI may be found at aeri.gseis.ucla.edu/. Information about the SLIS Specialization in Archives and Records Administration can be found at www.slis.wisc.edu/academics/archives.html.

Archival Doctoral Fellowship Opportunities at SLIS

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Beta Beta Epsilon UpdateOn Thursday, May 15, 2008, Beta Beta Epsilon (BBE) held its 24th annual Reception, Initiation, and Meeting at the Friederick Center along the shore of Lake Mendota, where we wel-comed our newest members:

• Cynthia Bachhuber • Elizabeth Bromley • Laura Bronstad • Anna Cianciara-Labourel • Patricia Eschmann • Eileen Harrington • Nancy Kunde • Alicia Jackson • Kelly James • Tracy Jordan • Heather Klepitsch • Todd Michelson-Ambelang • Fumiko Osada • Alexis Spry

• Jamey Stanosz • James Staskowski • Frances Veit • Bradley Wiles • Becky Yoose • David Zwicky

Becky Yoose was named Outstanding Student Scholar of the Year, and Anna Cianciara-Labourel was hon-ored as the recipient of the 2007-08 Jack A. Clarke Scholarship. A capti-vated audience listened to Professor Anne Lundin present her “Last Lecture: The Call of Stories.” Lundin shared her enthusiasm by speaking about the formative power of books. She said, “Stories call us to self-dis-covery,” and, “A book in the hand is a self in the making.” New board members were also elected. Joining President Nikki

Busch, Past President Anna Palmer, Treasurer Dee Grimsrud, and Vice-President for Membership Terry Ross, are: President Elect Leah Ujda, Vice President for Scholarship Judith Louer, and Secretary Claire Rasmussen. Christine Pawley is BBE’s new Faculty Adviser. Thanks to everyone who attended the Annual Meeting and helped make it a success! Mark your calendars now for BBE’s 25th Annual Meeting, which will take place on May 14, 2009 at the Pyle Center. Please consider helping us celebrate not only the academic accom-plishments of our newest inductees, but also BBE’s great historic tradition. To update your contact informa-tion to receive an invitation, contact vice president for membership Terry Ross at TDRoss@matcmadison.edu.

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Spectrum, LAMP, ISIP, AGEP, AOF: Diversity at SLIS

Participation in an alphabet soup of diversity programs is providing fund-ing and assistance of various kinds to SLIS students. Two doctoral students, Tammy Mays and Brenton Stewart, have been fully-funded for two years by Spectrum doctoral fellowships, which they garnered in competition with students all over the United States. Omar Poler, an incoming master’s student, has garnered an American Library Association master’s Spectrum Scholarship, a UW-Madison Advanced Opportunity Fellowship, and a scholarship from the Library and Information Studies Access Midwest Program (LAMP) for his two years of study. Other LAMP scholars are con-tinuing student Vanessa Martin, and incoming students Kristina Gomez (also AOF), Zachary Ott, and Roy Brooks. These students participate in summer institutes designed to provide mentoring and connections during their schooling—and after. Summer internships are also available. LAMP is a collaborative program encompassing LIS programs and academic libraries in the upper Midwest. It is designed to introduce greater diversity into academic libraries. Gabe Gossett, a continuing student, is Louise Robbins’s project assistant for the LAMP program and will help to set up the coming summer’s institute in Chicago. Robbins and Gossett work in close cooperation with the project director at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Roy Brooks is also a graduate of UW-Madison’s Information Services Internship Program (ISIP), a diversity program of the General Library System and currently is supported by a proj-ect assistantship to help manage ISIP. ISIP hires five or six students annually

SLIS Finds International PartnersSLIS is in the process of finalizing an exchange and cooperation agreement with National Taiwan University, where two of our graduates, Chi-Shiou Lin and Su-May Chen, teach. The original agreement, which awaits University approval, was signed by SLIS director Louise Robbins and NTU LIS chair Clarence Tsa-Kang Chu during Robbins’s and Madge Klais’s visit there in June. In addition, SLIS is working with the Botswana National Library, the University of Botswana, and philanthropist Bob Rothschild to establish an internship assisting in the establishment of public library services to new libraries in Botswana. Stay tuned for more.

SLIS faculty visit National Taiwan University class of alumna Su-May Chen (front row left). Also pictured are Louise Robbins and Madge Klais, graduates Ming-Hsin Phoebe Chiu (second row, directly behind Klais), and Chi-Shiou Lin (third row, directly behind Robbins).

and provides exposure to a variety of library positions and activities in order to introduce them to the work done to in libraries. Another graduate of that program is enrolled in the San Jose State LIS program A number of other new and continuing students are also recipi-ents of AOFs: doctoral student Kate VoThi-Beard; master’s students Dolly Morse, Margaret (Moyer) Cruse, Elliot Polak, and Kimberly Williams. All of these students have benefited or will benefit from funding provided by the College of Letters & Science

to SLIS and four other departments from a National Science Foundation program, the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP). The funds are designed to support recruitment of minority grad-uate students and support for such activities as travel to conferences. These programs supplement scarce funding for graduate study, making it possible for us to assist more students. Nevertheless, scholar-ship funding remains one of the biggest needs and highest priorities of the School.

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Past President: James Krikelas (1959)4021 Euclid Ave., Madison, WI 53711Phone: (608) 238-0031, Fax: (608) 238-0681krikelas@wisc.edu

President: Amy Kindschi (1983)Head, Faculty and Student ServicesKurt F. Wendt Library, Room 205University of Wisconsin-MadisonPhone: (608) 262-9405, Fax: (608) 265-8751kindschi@engr.wisc.edu

Vice President/President Elect: Nikki Busch (2003)Reference and Information Services262a Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-6431, nbusch@library.wisc.edu

Treasurer: Carol Schmitt (1995)Law Library Manager, Boardman Law Firm LLP1 S. Pinckney St., Suite 410, Madison WI 53701Phone: (608) 283-7514, cschmitt@boardmanlawfirm.com

Secretary: Barbara Hamel (1989)Steenbock Agricultural Library118 Steenbock Memorial Library550 Babcock Dr., Madison, WI 53706(608) 263-6373, bhamel@library.wisc.edu

Special Events Co-Chair: Ann Combs (1994)Health Sciences LibrarianEbling Library, Health Sciences Learning Center, Rm. 2333Phone: (608) 263-4414, Fax: (608) 262-4732 amcombs@wisc.edu

Special Events Co-Chair Ex-Officio: Andrea PoehlingStudent Services CoordinatorSchool of Library and Information Studies4217 Helen C. White Hall600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706(608) 263-2909, student-services@slis.wisc.edu

Reunion Co-Chair: Geoff Morse (2002)Reference Librarian, Northwestern University(847) 467-1866, gmorse@northwestern.edu

Reunion Co-Chair: Peter Gilbert (1989)Director, Lawrence University Library113 S. Lawe, Appleton, WI 54911Phone: (920) 832-7353, Fax: (920) 832-6967peter.j.gilbert@lawrence.edu

Nomination Committee: Nikki Busch, Vice Pres./Pres. Elect

Ex-Officio Members:Louise S. Robbins, Professor and Director,School of Library and Information Studies(608) 263-2908, lsrobbin@wisc.edu

Andrea Poehling, Student Services Coordinator,School of Library and Information Studies4217 Helen C. White Hall600 N. Park Street, Madison, WI 53706(608) 263-2909, student-services@slis.wisc.edu

SLIS Alumni Association Board Members 2008–2009

SLIS Library NewsThis fall much seems new at the Library with two new project assis-tants, our newly upgraded computer lab, and a new “face” to other areas of the library. Incoming doctoral students, Tien-I Tsai and Crystle Martin have joined the staff as Computer Lab and Public Services PAs. Thank you to Awa Zhu for help-ing with training before she left to be a teaching assistant this semester. More big thanks to Greg Putnam and Jim Kalupa, our wonderful IT folk. With much hard work on their part, Greg’s successful lab upgrade grant turned into an expanded and improved instructional lab in time for orientation. Given ever expanding demands on the pool of monies for this kind of upgrade, it is harder and takes longer to be a grantee. Greg and Jim, who are housed with us, but have building level responsibilities through the HC White IT group (an IT support structure begun in the mid-1990s

when Louise Robbins saw the grow-ing need) did wonders to keep our old equipment functioning for us, but as those of you who graduated recently know—this update was really needed. Because we increased the number of work stations in the lab we needed different tables. The old ones could be moved into the library, providing an affordable way to expand outlet access as we can power a row of tables from a single plug in. Of course nothing is ever that easy. Additional wiring and circuitry was necessary. But we’re clos-ing in on having everything we need to have these tables “powered” and I hope very soon the most constant request from SLISers to the library won’t have to be “more outlets.” While we were working on the facility we also finally got some more art up, thanks in part to the class of 2007, who left money that has been used to help buy frames. So thank you. And a special tip of the hat to whomever it was that put a note in the suggestion box: “Please Do NOT

reshelve—notices are not art.” Louise Robbins donated the Women Environmentalists Quilt she won from the Wisconsin Women Library Workers 2005 raffle and that is recently hung here as well. It looks great! Now if we can do something about the aging and starting to fray upholstery on the furniture in the “comfy seating” area, the library will be quite refurbished. If you have some energy and would be willing to help reinvigorate the Friends of the SLIS Library, please drop me an email. Historically this was a student group, and some stu-dents here are interested, but it needs a wider base. I could really use some help getting it relaunched this year. I know everyone is busy, but this could be fun. Really! And yes, we are very busy here, but once again I find myself caught up in the excitement and hubbub of the start of the academic year. I hope your fall is as enjoyable.

— Michele Besant

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Jottings is sent to all alumni. The costs for producing, and mailing the newsletter are shared by the SLIS Alumni Association and the School. The association needs your support now more than ever to support its activities. Contributions to the Second Century Fund provide unrestricted support for the greatest needs. Your gifts to the scholarship program provide extremely important financial support for students. If you are considering a planned gift, please contact Louise S. Robbins at SLIS. Thank you for your support!

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SLIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Contributions Form: 2008 UW-Madison SLIS Alumni Association Board MeetingThursday, May 15, 2008

President James Krikelas presided. Agenda and minutes were approved. There was no report from the trea-surer, but Louise Robbins noted that the SLIS Community Fund has a healthy balance, thanks to donations generated by Jottings. Ann Combs of the Special Events Committee informed the Board about the gradu-ation party and orientation. Nancy McClements reported on the upcom-ing ALA reunion in Anaheim on June 29. Robbins reported that Peter Gilbert was handling the details for the WLA reunion on November 5. Incoming Board President Amy Kindschi reported that Barbara Hamel was nominated for secretary, Nikki Busch for VP, and that Carol Schmitt will stay on as treasurer. Andrea Poehling suggested creating a listserv for all alumni. McClements suggested one for the alumni associa-tion board as well. Robbins reported happenings at SLIS. Her report can be obtained from Robbins or a mem-ber of the Board. Krikelas circulated a document detailing the newly named Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Award. Krikelas moved to adopt the changed nomination and selection procedures as well as the name for this award. The motion passed. Andrea Poehling reported that the alumni section of the SLIS Web site needed some attention; Kindschi will work with her on this project. Krikelas thanked the Board for their work, and stated that he enjoyed his time as president. Approved minutes are available after all Board meetings, and can be requested from any Board member.

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■ Associate Professor Greg Downey’s new undergraduate course, “LIS 201: The information society,” got off to a rousing start with five graduate teaching assistants helping to manage nearly 200 students. The class won a special five-year funding grant from the University for its contribution to “Technology Enhanced Learning.” Downey and his students will use the latest “Web 2.0” techniques—includ-ing weblogs, wikis, and podcasting—to explore how information in all its forms has been tied to notions of democracy, capitalism, social justice, and “progress” in American history. Downey also chairs the College of Letters & Sciences Curriculum Committee, with responsibility for reviewing and approving all new courses, course changes, and changes to majors among all the departments in the College, from Astronomy to Zoology.

■ Associate Professors Kristin Eschenfelder and Ethelene Whitmire have been invited to serve on the Editorial Board of Library Quarterly, beginning in 2009.

■ Allison G. Kaplan, Associate Faculty Associate, received a profes-sional development grant to attend the 2008 Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) National Institute in Salt Lake City, UT. In addition, her fall Children’s Services Class implemented the Allied Drive Story Time.

■ Associate Professor Kyung-Sun “Sunny” Kim is on sabbatical fall semester 2008, studying and doing research in Korea. She is co-author with doctoral student Sei-Ching

Joanna Sin of “Use and non-use of public libraries in the information age: a logistic regression analysis of house-hold characteristics and library ser-vices variables,” Library & Information Science Research (in press).

■ Assistant Professor Madge Hildebrandt Klais traveled to China and Taiwan with Louise Robbins in May and June. There, they spoke at a conference for rural librarians and teachers sponsored by the Evergreen Education Foundation. Last year’s visiting scholar, Hu Liyun, was also a conference speaker. With a change of plans to avoid the earthquake zone, they traveled with fellow conference attendees to sites in Shaanxi and Shanxi Provinces, including school and public libraries supported by the foundation. They then spoke to classes at National Taiwan University as guests of SLIS doctoral grad and NTU fac-ulty member Chi-Shiou Lin (PhD 2007). They also visited with Ming-Hsin Phoebe Chiu (PhD 2007) who teaches at National Taiwan Normal University. They were joined by Phoebe’s twin, Stella, a UW-Madison School of Education master’s gradu-ate, who works at the Imperial Palace Museum. They also spoke to the class of another SLIS doctoral graduate Su-May Chen (PhD 1998).

■ Assistant Professor Steve Paling participated in a panel on information research in the arts and humanities at this year’s conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). He also organized a meeting of the Arts and Humanities Special Interest Groups (SIG-AH). The meeting was intended

to revive the currently inactive group.

■ In June, Professor Christine Pawley attended the annual confer-ence of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing in Oxford, UK. Pawley contributed to a panel titled “A Right to Read in Segregated America.” Her paper, titled “Building ‘A reliable source of information ... about the Negro:’ Resisting Racism at the Chicago Public Library,” reported on her research on the career of Vivian G. Harsh, direc-tor of CPL’s G.C. Hall Branch on Chicago’s South Side, and founder of the Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American History and Literature. In September, she and Downey hosted a conference at UW-Madison on Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine and the Culture of Print, the latest of the conferences spon-sored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America.

■ Professor Louise Robbins has completed a year of activity as co-chair of one of six teams working to develop a vision for the next University of Wisconsin Strategic Plan, part of the accreditation process for the UW. Paul Evans, director of Housing, was her co-chair. She will serve one last year as president of PROFS, Inc., the Public Representation Organization of Faculty Senate, and as a member of the board of the University Book Store. She has sent the manuscript of the Librarian Spies off to the pub-lisher. With students Catherine Phan, Chelsea Couillard, and Christina Johnson, she presented at the 2008 Wisconsin Library Association conference.

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■ Debra Shapiro (MA 1991), cur-rently academic staff at SLIS, has been nominated to run for vice president/president elect of the ALA Division, LITA. The election will be held in spring 2009. Only LITA members are eligible to vote. For more information about LITA, see www.lita.org.

■ Assistant Professor Catherine Arnott Smith is part of an inter-national, interdisciplinary research collaborative working on issues of consumer health vocabulary. With her collaborators Arnott Smith pub-lished two articles this spring as part of a special issue on consumer health informatics: Alla Keselman, Robert Logan, Catherine Arnott Smith, Gondy Leroy, and Qing Zeng-Treitler, “Developing Informatics Tools and Strategies for Consumer-centered Health Communication,” J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008; 15: 473-483; and Alla Keselman, Catherine Arnott Smith, Guy Divita, Hyeoneui Kim, Allen C. Browne, Gondy Leroy, and Qing Zeng-Treitler, “Consumer Health Concepts That Do Not Map to the UMLS: Where Do They Fit?” J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008; 15: 496-505. The Consumer Health Vocabulary Initiative’s Web site is www.consum-erhealthvocab.org.

■ Assistant Professor Ciaran B. Trace’s article “Information Creation and the Notion of Membership,” Journal of Documentation 63 (1) (2007): 142-164, was selected as one of the Top 20 Library Instruction and Information Literacy articles by the American Library Association Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT). The article was reviewed by the Top 20 Committee of LIRT and selected from over 300 library instruc-tion and information literacy articles

published in 2007. Trace’s follow-up article to the Journal of Documentation piece has also just been published in JASIST: “Resistance and the Underlife: Informal Written Literacies and their Relationship to Human Information Behavior,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59 (10) (2008): 1540-1554.

■ Associate Professor Ethelene Whitmire will teach LIS 202, Information Divides and Differences in a Multicultural Society, in the spring. It is an undergraduate course that follows Downey’s LIS 201.

■ Peter Gottlieb, State Archivist and head of the Libraries and Archives Division of the Wisconsin Historical Society and Adjunct Associate Professor at SLIS, has been elected vice president of

the Society of American Archivists. The candidate elected vice president serves a one-year term beginning in August 2008 and will then become SAA’s 65th president in 2009–2010.

Emeritus News ........................Barbara Arnold participated in the Wisconsin Libraries Future Summit in May, went to Seattle for the SLA Annual Conference in June, and then traveled to Michigan and Cape Cod to visit with family. In addition to COLAND, she continues to serve as a racial equity discussion facilitator for the YWCA and on the Friends of Madison Public Library Board.

Charles and Joanne Bunge continue to enjoy retirement. They are thankful for continued health and vigor suf-ficient to travel. Most recently they enjoyed a photo-safari to Tanzania and a great trip to Egypt. Both are active with volunteer work. Charles especially enjoys volunteering with the local Habit for Humanity resale store. He also serves on the committee raising funds for furnishing and equip-ping the new Sequoya Branch Library, which promises to be a beautiful and functional facility. Charles extends greetings to all his former students and colleagues, many of whom seem to be retired or retiring these days, making him feel old indeed!

James Krikelas has just completed his term as president of the SLIS Alumni Association Board.

Anne Lundin is exploring her new life in retirement. This summer she took a poetry course at The Clearing in Door County. She spent several weeks with her daughter who lives in Berlin, Germany. Plans include participating in the UW Archives Oral History project as an interviewer (more stories!); attending book festi-vals here and in Austin, Texas; taking UW extension literature classes with Emily Auerbach; and spacious reading and writing.

Darlene Weingand and Roger Couture took a 14-day Alaskan cruise on the Tahitian Princess, followed by staying on board as it repositions and returns to Honolulu. Total time of cruising: 24 days.

Peter Gottlieb, SAA President Elect

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SLIS Graduates Take on Association LeadershipJames Rettig (1975) and Sari Feldman (1977) have begun major leadership roles. Rettig became president of the American Library Association at the close of the 2008 Annual Conference. SLIS’s 2006 Distinguished Alumnus, Rettig is the University Librarian at the University of Richmond, Virginia, and the author of a number of books and columns on reference work. He has long been a leader in both the Association of College and Research Libraries and ALA. Feldman, executive director of the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Public Library, became vice president/president elect of the Public Library Association (PLA) in July 2008 and will assume the PLA presidency in July 2009 for a one-year term. A long-time member of PLA and ALA, she has served on numerous committees, including the PLA Board of Directors and the ALA Office for Literacy/Outreach Services Committee. She has co-authored several publications, including Learning Environments for Young Children and Serving Families and Children Through Partnerships. The recipient of numerous awards, Feldman was named a YWCA Woman of Achievement in 2005.

SLIS master’s students Catherine Phan, Chelsea Couillard, and Christina Johnson — now known to the staff of the Northern Waters Library Service (NWLS) as the “Three C’s”—have responded to an invitation from NWLS and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe) to do a community-based needs assess-ment for the dormant tribal library. The three wrote a proposal to the Kauffman Entrepreneurship Community Internship Program to fund their work through the fall semester. They began their work in June with a series of trips to Red Cliff, which is located at the northern tip of Wisconsin, past Bayfield on Highway 2. The group’s goal is to work with the community to identify roles for the library that will be most helpful for the

community and sustainable in terms of services and funding. On August 19, they met with the Red Cliff Tribal Council and won a vote of support for the project. The October trip included a community dinner at which facilitators recruited by the team helped the trio to engage the community in a discussion of pos-sible ways in which the library can support the aspirations of the Tribe. The group will present a report to the Tribe in February, and hopes to follow the assessment by providing informa-tion about funding sources. SLIS Librarian Michele Besant and Louise Robbins are working with the students. The NWLS, espe-cially its director Jim Trojanowski, is also assisting with information and logistical support.

Christina Johnson, Catherine Phan, and Chelsea Couillard stand beside the van that transported them on one of their trips to work on a needs assessment for the Red Cliff Tribal Library.

Students Work with Red Cliff Tribe

Olive C. Koch-Rowe Fund

Olive C. Koch-Rowe completed her master’s degree at SLIS in 1967. At 57, she was justly proud of her accomplishment. When she died at the age of 97 in February, she remembered the School in her estate. The result is that returning Wisconsin resident students will in future years have support to achieve the same goal through the aptly named Olive C. Koch-Rowe Memorial Scholarship. We extend thanks to her sons, Ted Koch and Gary M. Koch as well as to Mrs. Rowe.

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In Memoriam ..........................Roy Mersky ’53 Centennial Distinguished Alumnus, was a giant in his field who made the University of Texas law library one of the best in the nation, friends and

colleagues said. Along the way, he taught worldwide, wrote prolifically and compiled a résumé more than 40 pages long. “He was probably the most famous law librar-ian in the history of legal education,” said Larry Sager, dean of the University of Texas School of Law.

J Joseph Bauxar, MA ‘58 passed away on April 22, 2008 at the age of 97. Following receipt of his MA, he was the Librarian and Archivist for Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois from 1958 to 1964. In the fall of 1964 he began a new posi-tion as Archivist at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, where he estab-lished the Northern Illinois Archives. Mr. Bauxar retired from NIU in 1979.

Marge Christensen, BLS ‘39 passed away on May 8, 2008. She was head of Memorial Reference for many years—an interesting, intelligent woman with an excellent sense of humor. She retired over 20 years ago and lived at Oakwood Village Retirement Community the last three years.

Terrie Jacobson, MA ‘94 passed away July 2, 2008. She worked for Bethesda Lutheran Homes in Jefferson, Wisconsin.

1960s ....................................Marley Soper ’65 writes “I held a full-time secondary teacher/librarian posi-tion seven years prior to earning my MA in LS from UW. I received excellent preparation for my life work at SLIS. Attending only the summer school program and raising a family did not make a scholar of me and I certainly did not ace the exit exam! Dr. Monroe advised me that the university prob-ably would not be recommending me for a position as a library director and

that my best future might be in catalog-ing.” Nevertheless, Soper moved from school to academic librarian positions at Andrews University and in 1981, she accepted an offer by the president of the university to be the Library Director of the James White Library at Andrews University, a position she held for 12 years, while doubling as chair of the Library Science Department. From there, she became director of the Robert Williams Library of Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences where she served for 10 years before retiring. She automated both the AU and FHCHS libraries from card catalogs. In retire-ment she continues to teach for the FHCHS via the Internet from her home. “I just wanted to express my apprecia-tion for a good education at SLIS and to encourage even those who struggle to raise family and funds while studying. It can be done.”

Nancy Meinel ’60 was hoping to visit the school library she started in 1965 at the Adua Teacher Training Institute in Ethiopia in May. It would be her first trip back in 42 years.

Barbara Conaty ’69 will take up a new assignment within the Foreign Service this fall when she becomes American Corners coordinator for the Information Resources Office of the Bureau of International Information Programs. Her job title is Information Resource Officer, a term that describes librarians who travel worldwide visiting special libraries set up in 170 American embas-sies as well as more than 400 American Corners. An American Corner is a part-nership between an American embassy and a host institution (often a library) where residents can find books and other library materials, view films, hear speak-ers from the USA, study English, apply to American colleges, and otherwise learn more about the USA. Visitors to Washington, D.C., can get her local picks by e-mailing her at conatybx@state.gov.

Kathleen Imhoff ’69 recently published a new book, Library Contests. She also was recently elected to the Standing

Committee on Metropolitan Libraries of IFLA where she presented a paper at the mid-term meeting in Prague.

1970s ....................................Jennifer Younger ’71, (PhD ’90) complet-ed two terms on the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries. In addition, she served as board secretary and member of the executive committee.

Sharon Elizabeth Wallace ’72 retired since ‘98, was recently awarded Sedona, Arizona’s fourth annual prestigious Ruth K. Birkner Leadership Award for her “vision, enthusiasm, inspiration, mentorship, knowledge, focus on educa-tion, ability to communicate effectively, and willingness to share her time and talent with her community.” Her name and photo now appear on a plaque in the center of the Sedona Public Library.

After 32 years as a library media special-ist and track and cross country coach at Appleton West High School, Claudine W. Happel ’73, in her third year of retire-ment, continues to enjoy subbing and volunteering in schools throughout the Appleton Area School District.

Kris Adams Wendt ’74 has retired from the Rhinelander District Library. During her 30 years with the library, she held various positions including library director.

Sarah Calcese ’77 retired from Wendt Library in August. After her graduation from SLIS, she spent most of her time in the UW-Madison campus libraries.

Libby Hamler-Dupras ’77 has served as the co-chair of the Beverly Cleary Children’s Choice Award (BCCA) Committee for the past four years. She had the honor of presenting the 2008 award to Irish children’s author, Eoin Colfer, for his book, The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth, at the Baghdad Café in Portland, Oregon in July. In addition, she has been the teacher-librarian at Myers Elementary School in Salem, Oregon for the past 18 years, and has served on numerous volunteer committees within the Oregon Association of School

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Libraries (OASL, formerly OEMA). She and her husband live in Dallas, Oregon, and have a 20-year-old daughter. She says that receiving her education at the UW-SLIS program was a truly rewarding experience.

1980s ....................................Donald Clay Johnson (PhD ‘80) retired in August from the curatorship of the Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota. He looks forward in retirement to pursuing his research on textiles with special emphasis on South and Southeast Asia. His recent publica-tions in this area include Wedding Dress Across Cultures (Oxford: Berg, 2003), “Seventeenth-century perceptions of textile trade as evidenced in the writings of the Emperor Jahangir and Sir Thomas Roe,” in Textiles from India: the Global Trade, Papers Presented at a Conference on the Indian Textile Trade, Kolkata, 12-14 October 2003 (New York: Seagull Books, 2006), Dress Sense: Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes (Oxford: Berg, 2007), and, “Wedding Attire,” in Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony (Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 2008).

Gregor Trinkaus-Randall ‘80, preser-vation specialist at the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC), is pleased to announce that the MBLC has been honored with the 2008 Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections. The award is given jointly by the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and Heritage Preservation.

Clair Schulz ’80, a respected radio his-torian who formerly served as Archives Director of the Museum Broadcast Communications in Chicago, is the author of Fibber McGee and Molly, On the Air 1935-1959, published in July by BearManor Media.

Alberto Herrera, Jr. ’82, diversity servic-es/reference librarian, Raynor Memorial Libraries at Marquette University, was a candidate for Wisconsin Library

Association president. Results were not known at the time the newsletter was written.

Patricia Herrling ’84 retired after 23 years with the General Library System at UW-Madison. She was a reference and liaison librarian and served as instruction coordinator for Steenbock Library since the early 1990s. She also worked as the librarian for the Plant Pathology Library for many years. During her tenure, she ably led and served on numerous cam-pus library committees and working groups and demonstrated a strong commitment to librarianship through her participation in professional organizations and mentoring of new instruction librarians.

Nicholas Goetzfridt (PhD ’86) is professor of Library Science and Micronesian Studies at the University of Guam. He recently published Pacific Ethnomathematics (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008) and has previously published books through Greenwood Press on Indigenous Navigation and Voyaging in the Pacific (CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book List), Indigenous Literature of Oceania, and Micronesian Histories. He is close to finishing his longest work, Guahan: A Bibliographic History. Guahan is the indig-enous name for Guam. He was also just awarded the University of Guam’s annual Excellence in Research Award for the second time and recently helped launch Guampedia (www.Guampedia.com) on Guam’s history for which he has served as Editor-in-Chief and currently as its Humanities Scholar. Nick has also written and published on Pacific epistemological contexts and the associated assumptive nature of libraries in Micronesian societ-ies. He knows no snow (the island’s tem-perature rarely falls below the mid-70s) and regularly paddles on a six-person outrigger canoe on the open ocean. He periodically sees dolphins and turtles but no sharks. Yet.

Peter Gilbert ’89, librarian at Lawrence University, and Nancy McClements (1977), head of reference at UW-Madison’s Memorial Library,

were both candidates for posts on the WLA Foundation Board. Election results were pending at press time.

1990s ....................................Kate Bugher ’90 retired after 36 years in the library field. She was school library media consultant with the Instructional Media and Technology Team within the Wisconsin Department of Instruction (DPI). Prior to her position at DPI, she spent seven years as school library media specialist at James Madison Memorial High School and nine years at Edgewood High School, both in Madison. She began her career after college at the Eau Claire Public Library before taking school library media positions with the Augusta and Eau Claire school districts. As school library media consultant, Kate supervised DPI’s research study of the impact of Wisconsin school library media programs on student achievement and communicat-ed the study’s findings through state and national presentations and DPI publica-tions. She was responsible for overseeing school library standards, staffing, certi-fication and funding (Common School Fund) issues. Kate also worked closely with the DPI Reading First team to ensure school library collaboration with the grant school’s reading programs. She served as DPI liaison to the Wisconsin Education Media and Technology Association (WEMTA) for which she held many leadership positions, including president from 2004-2006.

John Leonard Berg ’92, senior aca-demic librarian at UW-Platteville, wore his Campaign for Wisconsin Libraries T-shirt as he visited the famous library at Ephesus as part of a two-week trip to Turkey funded by a humanities grant.

Lynn Silipigni Connaway PhD ’92 presented with her co-authors at the ALA Library Research Forum last sum-mer. Their paper was entitled, “I Find What I Need: Behaviors and Information Seeking Preferences of Non-Users of Virtual Reference.” Connaway is a researcher with OCLC.

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Julie Schneider ’92, assistant direc-tor for Scholarly Communication, Ebling Library for the Health Sciences, UW-Madison, was a candidate for ALA Councilor for the WLA. Results were not known as we went to press.

Laura Olsen Dugan ’93 recently returned to the workforce after three delightful years as an at-home parent. She is in a knowledge management position with Quarles and Brady and loves being back in the law librarian community.

Gerri Wanserski ’93 retired from the UW-Health Sciences Library in early July. Gerri has been a reference and instruction librarian and liaison special-ist in pharmaceutical and pharmacy resources since the late 1990s, and coor-dinated the former Pharmacy Library prior to the merger of health libraries.

David Atkins ’94 is currently the team leader with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Access and Delivery Services.

Virginia Woods Roberts ’94 is director of the Suttons Bay-Bingham, Michigan, District Library—“from the annually overflowing toilets to the fantastic turnout blockbuster summer reading program.”

In August, Valerie Carter-Brown ’95 became the new reference manager at the Waukegan Public Library in Waukegan, Illinois.

Gail Oosterhuis Henslin ’95 has started a newly created position in the UW-Madison Economics Department. She is the Career Development Coordinator/Alumni Relations.

Beth Lokken ’95 announced the birth of her second son, Henry Donald Lokken on October 20, 2007. He joins his 4-year-old brother Bjorn Richard and his Mom and Dad (Beth and Ric) in lovely Door County, where Beth just celebrated nine years as the youth services librarian.

Jen-Tai Tseng ’95 lives in Taipei, Taiwan, with his wife and two children. He currently works for Aegon Life Insurance. He joined Louise Robbins,

Madge Klais, Madison graduates Chi-Shiou Lin (PhD ), Phoebe and Stella Chiu (PhD ), and Su May Chen (PhD) and incoming SLIS student Tien-I Tsai for dinner at Taipei 101.

Abigail Elder ’97 has accepted a position as director of Tualatin Public Library, located in a small suburb (population 26,000) southwest of Portland. The library just moved in to its new building last month; one of her first assignments will be to secure a vendor for the espresso stand (a tough task for a non-coffee drinker.)

Chris (Kief) Schladweiler ’97 is still in NYC working for the Foundation Center. “I travel a lot because of my job (we have a network of nearly 400 Cooperating Collections—public and academic librar-ies, and nonprofit resource centers—nationwide that provide resources and training to nonprofits and others seeking funding from foundations). I hope that I will be able to make it back to Madison sometime in 2009.”

Beth Harper ’98 presented at the 2008 Government Information Day on June 6.

Peg Koller ’98 has been the school librar-ian at St. John’s Northwestern Military Academy since her graduation from SLIS.

Toni Samek (PhD ’98), recipient of the 2007 LJ teaching award, was one of the featured speakers at the Wisconsin Library Association Conference in November.

2000s ....................................Erica Nutzman ’00 was just promoted to director of libraries for the Globe Education Network, a private career college system. She also has 14-month-old twins.

Lori Delaney ‘01 is president of APLIC-I, the Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers-International until April 2009. She served as vice president in 2008 and planned APLIC-I’s 41st Annual Conference, held in April 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jenica Rogers-Urbanek ’01 has been working at SUNY Potsdam, in far upstate New York, for the past five years. She is the collection development coordinator/technical services librarian — it’s sort of two jobs rolled into one, but she’s enjoying the challenge.

Nahyun Kwon (PhD ’02), recently tenured as an associate professor at the University of South Florida, is the author of “Critical Thinking Disposition and Library Anxiety: A Mixed Methods Investigation,” that appears in Information and Emotion a new entry into the ASIS&T monograph series.

Kristen (Steinle) Monroe ’02 is now liv-ing in Denver with her husband and two young children. She is a senior librarian with Denver Public Library.

Erin Meyer ‘03 is getting settled in at Denver University. She is rejoining the SLIS doctoral program from a distance.

Cyndi Chappell ’04 is pleased to report that her efforts at SLIS have paid off. She has been working for the Johnson County Library in the Kansas City area for nearly three years. She began as assis-tant branch manager for the largest of the branches, and was promoted to manager one year ago.

John Cherney ’04 and Andrea Minniear ’03 were married in May 2008.

Ryan Engel ’04 is the special collections librarian at the Lawrence Jacobsen Library at UW-Madison. He returns to UW after having served as the librarian at the CNN Library in Atlanta.

Steve Meyer ’04 of Library Technology Group was named the 2008 Librarian of the Year (under 10 years) by his peers in the UW-Madison Librarians’ Assembly. The award, created in 1989, acknowledge exceptional contributions to the libraries. Two Librarian of the Year awards are given to unclassified staff members each spring to honor their contributions to the General Library System.

Todd Scudiere ’04 works as a catalog-ing librarian at the San Diego County

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Library on a contract basis. He also freelances as a Hindi translator, and is currently working on his third Hindi dictionary publication for Hippocrene Books.

Sarah Mindel Stanwicks ‘04 has recently taken a job as a children’s librarian at the main Albany Public Library in Albany, New York.

Abbigail Swanton ’04 presented at the 2008 Government Information Day on Friday June 6, 2008.

Mark Joseph King ’05 is a bibliographer of rare books with Better World Books in South Bend, Indiana.

Athena Salaba PhD ’05 was a speaker at the Library Research Round Table (LRRT) Research Forum held during the ALA Annual Convention in Anaheim. Her presentation was titled User Research and Testing of FRBR-Based Online Library Catalogs.

Ryan Stacy ’05 started a new full-time position as adult services librarian at the Campbell County Public Library in May. His branch is in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, which is actually part of the greater Cincinnati area. “Meera and I are sad to leave Madison and all our friends and colleagues here, but the timing and opportunities are right for us to move closer to our family (we’re Ohio natives). We’ll miss the community we had here, but we’re excited to start a new chapter in our life too.”

Melissa Gomis ‘06 left her position as instructional technology librarian at the IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning to become the Instructional Technology Librarian at the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jon Jeffryes ’06 has left UW-Madison’s Wendt Library after two years to take on a new position as a physical sciences and engineering librarian at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Alex Phelps ’06 was featured in the “What I Do” section of the Wisconsin State Journal on September 2, 2008. She did a great job of explaining the excite-ment of being a School Library Media Specialist.

Melissa Pond ’06 is a librarian at the Leech Lake Tribal College in Cass Lake, Minnesota. She is still cited at SLIS for inventing the mythical town of Fargone, half way between Lake Woebegone and Fargo, which features in management case studies from time to time.

Elsworth Rockefeller ’06 writes, “I left my young adult services librarian posi-tion in New Jersey in July, and I am now chief of the Young Adult Services Division for the District of Columbia Public Library System. I continue to serve on YALSA’s Best Books for Young Adults Committee.”

Gabriel Angulo ’07 will return to Madrid, Spain, for a second year. Last year he held a Fulbright posi-tion and this coming year he holds the Endesa Scholarship, which provides a year’s internship at the State Archived Administration of Spain’s Ministry of Culture, where he will work on an Encoded Archival Description project. For six weeks during the summer of 2008, Angulo studied Biblical Hebrew in Jerusalem.

Adam Becker ’07 is the youth services librarian at the Pueblo of Pojoaque Public Library in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Patricia Eschmann ’07 has joined WLA as a part-time communications coordina-tor for the WLA Foundation. She will work with donors, with program promo-tion and the Campaign for Wisconsin’s Libraries.

Camilla Hansen ’07 is using her SLIS degree in the field of information tech-nology. She works in Quality Assurance at Epic Systems in Madison.

Stephen Henry ’07 joined the University of Maryland Libraries as a music librar-ian in August 2007.

Tracy (Jordan) Moore ’07 is the youth services librarian at the Hawthorne Branch of the Madison Public Library.

Dan Malosh ’07 landed his first full-time gig at the Watertown Public Library. He is reference/technology resource coordi-nator. “The nutty thing is I never expect-ed to work in a public library; I had been solely focusing on academic librarianship during my time at SLIS. What’s more, I never really wanted to work in reference. In fact, I only took Anne’s 571 and never thought I’d need to take more courses on the subject. You can only imagine the number of crash courses I have taken—sometimes on a daily basis—since I started this job!”

Emily Scharf ’07 is a reference and instruction librarian at southeast Missouri State University.

Nancy Scibelli ’07 has been an informa-tion specialist with Quarles & Brady LLP in Milwaukee since August 2007.

Kimberly Thomas ’07 is currently on contract as an archivist at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.

Lia Vellardita ’07 is the new half-time research intern for Library Instruction at Wendt Library. She did her LILI Field Project at Wendt in Spring 2007. Since earning her MA, Lia has worked at the Middleton Public Library and more recently for WCATY, the Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth, where she was a media and resources librarian and program director for an online instruction program.

Gwen Verkuilen ’07 is the assistant head of reference and instructional services at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Jesse Verstermark ’07 a former cata-loging field study student at the Silver Buckle Press has received the 2008-09 Kress Fellowship in Art Librarianship at Yale University. Vestermark earned an MFA from the UW-Madison Art Department and then completed his MA from SLIS in May 2007.

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Becky Canovan ’08 is a reference and instruction librarian at the University of Dubuque.

Anna Cianciara-Labourel ’08 joined Bloomberg LLP in Princeton, New Jersey as a content indexing data analyst.

Stephanie Harris ’08 is the new research intern in access services at UW-Madison’s Memorial Library, where she will split her time between access services and working reference at College Library.

Danika Morphew-Tarbuck ’08 is the Web 2.0 content producer for TeachingBooks.net in Madison.

Fumiko Osada ’08 recently started working as a children’s librarian in San Diego County.

Casey Petersen ’08 is working just down the street from SLIS at St. Mary’s Hospital as the consumer health librarian. She would like to stay involved with SLIS and has already been in contact with Cat Smith about hosting a practi-cum student for the Consumer Health Info class.

Frances Veit ’08 is librarian of the early childhood resource library of Resources for Child Caring, a large nonprofit that operates in the seven-county metro area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, doing things like child care training and grants administration. She also manages the bookstore and has recently begun to take on the role of tracking, compiling, and organizing agency data—“interesting and rewarding, but I’m starting to wish I’d taken the database class.” The work with the logic model in management has already proven useful, she says.

Brad Wiles ’08 recently started as the manuscripts archivist at Hill Special Collections Library at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Becky Yoose ’08 is a bibliographic systems librarian at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Dave Zwicky ’08 has been selected to be one of 2008-10’s North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries fellows, a highly competitive program that devel-ops future leaders for academic libraries. NCSU fellows are appointed to two-year terms as members of the library faculty, combining a project assignment on an initiative of strategic importance with a half-time appointment in a home depart-ment. Zwicky’s home assignment will be with the NCSU Textiles Library serving textiles and engineering students. He will use his digital library skills on his project, Data Repository Development, in Digital Library Initiatives.

Current Students ......................Continuing student David Mindel did an internship at American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in summer 2008.

Kate Vo Thi- Beard and her hus-band, David Beard, recently published “Rethinking the book: new theories for readers’ advisory” in Reference & User Services Quarterly 47 (Summer 2008): 331-336.

Doctoral student Sei-Ching Joanna Sin is first author with Associate Professor Sunny Kim of “Use and non-use of public libraries in the information age: a logistic regression analysis of house-hold characteristics and library services variables,” Library & Information Science Research (in press). Sin also presented her research paper, “Disparities in public libraries’ service levels based on neighborhood income and urbanization levels: a nation-wide study,” at the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, this October.

SLIS doctoral students Sharon McQueen and Awa Zhu recently won honors from the ALA’s Library Research Round Table (LRRT). The winners presented their papers at a forum session at the ALA Annual conference. Awa Zhu was a winner of the LRRT graduate student research paper competition:

Social Construction of Authorized Users in the Digital Age.

Sharon McQueen has won the 2008 LRRT Shera Award for Support of Dissertation Research for “The Story of ‘Ferdinand’: The Creation of a Cultural Icon.”

At the ALA conference in June, master’s student Brad Reel presented his paper “Cultural Amenities, Wholesome Alternatives: Libraries and Reading Rooms of America’s Western Railroads” during the Library History Round Table’s Research Forum. He was one of three library historians whose papers were selected for presentation on varying historical aspects of libraries and library development in the West, followed by commentary and reaction by an accom-plished historian in the field.

Lisa Muccigrosso, Sharon McQueen, and Richard Wambold received grants from the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries for tuition and partial reimbursement of travel and lodging expenses to attend the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. McQueen took Introduction to the History of Illustration, taught by Erin Blake, Curator of Art and Special Collections at the Folger Shakespeare Library, which ties in with her dissertation study of the iconography of The Story of Ferdinand. Wambold and Muccigrosso both enjoyed the course, The History of the Book, 200-2000, taught by John Buchtel and Mark Dimunation. Dimunation is chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. Thanks to the Friends of the UW Libraries, who encourage applications from other SLIS students as well.

Alyson Williams, incoming master’s stu-dent who took Libraries and the Global Knowledge Society, followed up her group project with a trip to El Ciruelo, Mexico, in August to help determine whether the Tercera Raiz library would be an appropriate site for ongoing SLIS service learning projects.

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Continuing Education NewsContinuing Education Services (CES) hosted Back in Circulation Again on September 26 and 27. This was the fifth biannual circulation conference held in Madison. Over 100 circulation manag-ers and staff members from 22 states attended sessions on topics such as customer service, Web-based training, circulation in the digital age, statewide circulation systems, and staff engage-ment. The next circulation conference will be held during fall 2010.

Help for Tight BudgetsIf your travel and training dollars are dwindling, CES has developed a new training tool to address tight budgets. “In-Service in a Box” is a series of DVDs designed for librar-ies to use for staff development days and outreach opportunities. The first DVD, Masters of Storytime: A Collection of Early Literacy Techniques, teaches library staff and day care providers to incorporate early literacy skills into

their children’s programming. It was distributed free to all Wisconsin pub-lic libraries in November 2007 and is also available for purchase. The Power of Booktalking is the second DVD in the series and it demonstrates how to plan, perform, and perfect booktalks for children and adults. It features alumni from the past four decades! Madge Klais (1972), Stacey Pipson (1996), Teresa Voss (2002), Julie Weis (1998), Kathleen T. Horning (1982), Megan Schliesman (1992), and Tessa Michaelson (2005) all contributed. This latest DVD will be finished and available for purchase in November 2008. Future DVDs in the series may focus on management or customer service. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of either DVD, contact Susan Santner, sbsantner@wisc.edu. New continuing education online courses are added to the CES schedule each semester and may be viewed by visiting www.slis.wisc.edu/continueed. Think of CES to keep current!

Librarians’ Tour to Scotland2009 marks the 20th anniver-sary of our study tour program! Jane Pearlmutter led the first Librarians’ Tour to Scotland in 1989, and will take a group again in June of 2009 as she makes her 16th trip to Scotland. Our study tours offer library person-nel and their friends and families an opportunity to travel with a small, compatible group, meet colleagues abroad, and visit many scenic and historic places. This year’s tour is tentatively set for June 13-23. To receive an itinerary and information/registration pack-et, contact SLIS Associate Director Jane Pearlmutter, (608) 262-6398, email: jpearlmu@wisc.edu.